Summer semester 2014Techno Legacy

Technology is a manifestation of human culture. It is external scaffolding to the mindset of the time. On one hand it presents what we have achieved, but on the othe it fundamentally influences on how we are, how we see the world, and how we live.

With the ever increasing speed of innovation, our inventions become obsolete, and are forgotten rapidly.Some times, though, the original intended use turns on its head: who would have foreseen for example, that a protocol to send a status diagnostics of the networks becomes an omnipresent cultural phenomenon in the form of SMS?

This semester challenges us to look at „old“ technologies, understand their original purpose, then turn to look at them from the present, and re-appropriate them anew.